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- The Roslyn Water District serves some 5,834 residential and commercial customers in a 5.1 square mile area.
The estimated population within the District is 17,000. An additional 1,800 people are served by the District in Albertson and Glenwood Landing.
- In 2006, the District pumped a total of 1.263 billion gallons of water: August pumpage was highest at 190.214 million gallons and February was the lowest at 59.406 million gallons.
- Maximum daily usage tops 7.5 million gallons per day.
- In case of a water emergency the District has eight supply interconnections with four neighboring districts — Old Westbury, Albertson, Jericho and Port Washington, with an available capacity of is about 2 million gallons a day.
- The District’s transmission-distribution system consists of about 90 miles of 6 to 20 inch water mains.
- Every gallon of water consumed by District users is recorded by computer and billed accordingly.
- The Roslyn Water District is one of the oldest public water suppliers on Long Island,
having been established in 1910. The original well, near the District Office, is still serving faithfully.
- All of our water comes from underground wells. Unlike New York City, Long Island does not use reservoir water nor have a surface water system.
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